Terminator and Gremlins actor Dick Miller dies at age 90

Character actor Dick Miller, who appeared in The Terminator and Gremlins, amongst dozens of other movies, died Wednesday in Toluca Lake, Calif. He was ninety.

Miller appeared in numerous movies directed by Roger Corman, which include 1959’s A Bucket of Blood and 1960’s The Tiny Shop of Horrors. He later turned a beloved of filmmaker Joe Dante, a Corman protégé, who cast Miller in 1978’s Piranha, 1981’s The Howling, both of those Gremlins films, and The ‘Burbs, amid other initiatives. Miller also appeared in The Terminator and Chopping Mall and was the subject of the 2014 documentary, That Person Dick Miller.

Dante is between people who have paid tribute to Miller on social media. “I’m devastated to report that one particular of my most effective buddies and most treasured collaborators has handed absent. I ‘grew up’ (kinda) looking at Dick Miller in motion pictures from the 50s on and was thrilled to have him in my initial film for Roger Corman,” Dante shared on Twitter. “We strike it off and each and every script thereafter I often looked for a part for Dick–not just simply because he was my buddy but since I liked observing him act! But he leaves driving over a hundred performances, a bio & a doc–not lousy for a person who barely ever loved a starring role.”

“RIP Dick Miller, surely the king of character actors,” Wright wrote on Twitter. “A welcoming, humorous facial area in Gremlins (1&two), Piranha, the original Minor Shop Of Horrors, Not Of This Earth, After Hours & my own beatnik fav, Walter Paisley in ‘A Bucket Of Blood’. Any part of his was cult movie nirvana.”

“Dick Miller was the patron saint of Junkfood Cinema,” wrote Cargill. “Brian (Salisbury, Junkfood Cinema’s other host) and I did an in depth job interview with him five years back at the very beginning of JFC. We only had a 50 percent hour, but Dick preferred to maintain likely. Went above an hour. He Cherished talking about films he hadn’t believed about in 40yrs.”